This review was commissioned. However, it bears no weight on the score or critique.
The Fair Attempts have actually taken a step back from their usual bombastic approach to music making. The dancefloor loving project who usually injects a heavy dose of dance-driven beats into their music have instead produced a slow, cinematic piece that is musically gifted, but vocally a bit short. Musically gifted as we’re granted a wondrous piece of doom-influenced guitars and heavy percussion in between moments of silent cybernetic tweaks. The good cop / bad cop routine as it would be. The vocals, on the other hand, are okay at best. When they’re trying to sound menacing, it comes off more like someone trying to scare a child on the playground, or through a hidden lore video on YouTube of some creature no one ever heard of. The vocals work during the quieter sections of the single, not during the aggressive parts, though. A bit of good, a bit of bad, somewhere in between.
But all around I must give The Fair Attempts props for ‘Children of City 9’. There’s a little bit of world building going on, a little cinematic presence, a bit of doom and gloom, and the synths and electronics we’ve come to know from them. Well done.
